Saddam, perfect recruit to the sinister, violent, conspiratorial underworld that was Iraqi politics, positioned himself at the heart of this process.
The composer who gave sinister voice to an underworld of pimps, prostitutes and murderers in "The Threepenny Opera" and set Freudian anxiety to song in "Lady in the Dark" is the inspiration for "Here Lies Jenny," the hourlong nightcap of a musical diversion, which opened yesterday and can be seen from Thursdays through Saturdays at 11 p.m. at the Zipper Theater.
When Carla's friendship with one of the anti-Mafia magistrates ends in violence, Zen finds a personal motive for trying to penetrate the sinister network that links the criminal underworld of Catania with friends in high political places.
The Craze, by the way, is a homonym for the Krays, the sinister twin brothers who once ruled the London underworld.
Filtering a piquantly feminist perspective on Iranian gender relations through a mesh of genre influences including low-rent horror, film noir and even spaghetti western, here's a fantasy underworld with entirely its own woozy, sinister flavour.
Sebastian Horsley, artist and wit, who once crucified himself in the Philippines and wrote a superb memoir, Dandy in the Underworld, in which he exhibited his sinister and glittering bons mots, was found dead on Thursday morning of a suspected heroin overdose.
It becomes more playful thereafter as Bruce prepares to confront two groups of opponents - on one hand, the sinister CEO of Wayne Enterprises (Rutger Hauer), and, on the other, a sadistic underworld boss (Tom Wilkinson) and a mad psychiatrist (Cillian Murphy) with a private asylum, who are terrorising Gotham.
The Mayans believed they were sacred gateways to the underworld, and while you may still find relics of their sinister past, these days you can visit the crystal clear waters for snorkeling, scuba diving, and swimming.
Now, an even more sinister problem has been added to its list of woes: ties to the criminal underworld.
Who would have guessed, then, that amidst all those love-ins, behind the beads and the peace signs, the guitars, the fringes, and all that hair, lived a dark and sinister 'star-maker machinery' steeped in threats and fear and murder: the proverbial seedy underworld of organized crime.
